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Very variable. Stem 10-50 cm long, simple, +-crispate-floccose above. Leaves only slightly asymmetrical, broadly ovate to obliquely elliptic-oblong, 10-30 by 4-12(-20) cm, base cordate to cuneate, apex acute to obtuse, margin strongly dentate-serrate to entire, frequently reflexed, glabrous and shining above, +-crispate-floccose below (usually densely so when young), at least on the nerves, but sometimes almost glabrous; nerves 2-4 pairs, steeply ascending; petiole 1.5-8 cm, +-crispate-floccose or glabrescent. Inflorescences arising singly or more often 2-3 together from the upper (1-5) leaf axils, dense, many-flowered, scorpioid, short or long, 1-7 cm, peduncle ± 1 cm. Bracts orbicular to obovate, 5-8 mm long, ciliate. Flowers biseriate, 5-8 mm long. Calyx-tube obovoid, 3-4 by 2 mm, pilose. Sepals unequal, scarcely 2 mm long, pilose, margins reflexed. Corolla very shortly (scarcely 1 mm) gamopetalous, 3 mm long, glabrous; segments oblong or spatulate-obovate, erect, recurved at apex. Filaments 1½ mm, slender, sometimes sigmoid; anthers oblong, 1 mm. Stigma ovoid-oblong, 1 mm. Fruit ovoid or obovoid, 5 by 3-4 mm.
